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Sri Lanka: Government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1947–2025 · 79 observations · govexp

2025
5.77 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+10.0%a year

Government expenditure

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Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20255,771,245
20245,712,979
20235,356,591
20224,472,557
20213,521,547
20203,468,940
20193,095,191
20182,693,228
20172,573,056
20162,333,883

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Sri Lanka documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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